How You’ll Benefit
This training will help you:
- Make design choices for optimal data center infrastructure performance, virtualization, security, and automation
- Master the practical and theoretical knowledge necessary to design a scalable, reliable, and intelligent data center based on Cisco technologies
- Qualify for professional-level job roles in the high-demand area of enterprise-class data center environments
Learning Path Objectives
- Describe the Layer 2 and Layer 3 forwarding options and protocols used in a data center.
- Describe the rack design options, traffic patterns, and data center switching layer access, aggregation, and core.
- Describe Locator/ID separation protocol.
- Design a solution that uses Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN) for traffic forwarding.
- Describe the hardware redundancy options; how to virtualize the network, compute, and storage functions; and virtual networking in the data center.
- Describe solutions that use fabric extenders and compare Cisco Adapter Fabric Extender (FEX) with single root input/output virtualization (SR-IOV).
- Describe security threats and solutions in the data center.
- Describe advanced data center security technologies and best practices.
- Describe device management and orchestration in the data center.
- Describe the storage options for the compute function and the different Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) levels from a high-availability and performance perspective.
- Describe Fibre Channel concepts and architecture.
- Describe Fibre Channel topologies and industry terms.
- Describe Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE).
- Describe security options in the storage network.
- Describe the management and automation options for the storage networking infrastructure.
- Describe Cisco UCS servers and use cases for various Cisco UCS platforms.
- Explain the connectivity options for fabric interconnects for southbound and northbound connections.
- Describe the hyperconverged solution and integrated systems.
- Describe the systemwide parameters for setting up a Cisco UCS domain.
- Describe role-based access control (RBAC) and integration with directory servers to control access rights on Cisco UCS Manager.
- Describe the pools that may be used in service profiles or service profile templates on Cisco UCS Manager.
- Describe the different policies in the service profile.
- Describe the Ethernet and Fibre Channel interface policies and additional network technologies.
- Describe the advantages of templates and the difference between initial and updated templates.
- Describe data center automation tools
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